Hans Rausing, the heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, pleaded guilty to preventing
the burial of his wife Eva yesterday as it emerged that he had kept her body
hidden for two months under clothing in their multimillion-pound home.

Rausing had been so overwhelmed by the death of his beloved wife of 19 years
that he suffered a breakdown and refused to face reality, a court was told.

His denial was compounded by drug taking and he later told a psychiatrist: “I
know it sounds selfish but I just didn’t want her to leave.”